问题 翻译题

翻译(8分)

小题1:会议室里挤满了人,他们正在开会。

The meeting room ________  ________  _______ people and they are having a meeting.

小题2:如果你想更多地了解中国艺术,不要错过那里的戏剧表演。

If you want to _______ ________ ________ Chinese art, don’t miss the opera shows there.

小题3:如果你不喜欢中式食品,这家店里也有西式食品。

If you don’t like ___________ ______ , there is __________ ______ in this shop too.

小题4:我母亲的一个朋友在我家。这是她的车。

A friend of ________ _________ is at my home. This car is _________.

答案

小题1:is full of

小题2:learn more about

小题3:Chinese food, western food

小题4:my mother’s, hers

题目分析:

小题1:be full of 满是,因为主语是 The meeting room会议室,是单数,所以be要用单数形式is,故填is full of。

小题2:learn about了解,更多地了解learn more about ,故填learn more about。

小题3:中式食品Chinese food,西式食品western food,故填Chinese food, western food。

小题4:我母亲的一个朋友my mother’s friend="a" friend of my mother’s,This is her car.="This" car is hers.此处hers是名词性的物主代词,等于her car,故填my mother’s, hers.

单项选择题

With the spread of inter-active electronic media a man alone in his own home will never have been so well placed to fill the inexplicable mental space between cradle and crematorium. So I suspect that books will be pushed more and more into those moments of travel or difficult defecation (1) people still don’t quite know what to do with.

When people do read, I think they’ll want to feel they are reading literature, or (2) something serious. (3) you’re going to find fewer books presenting themselves as no- nonsense and (4) assuming literary pretensions and being packaged as works of art. We can expect an extraordinary variety of genre, but with an underlying (5) of sentiment and vision.

Translators can only (6) from this desire for the presumably sophisticated. We can look forward to lots of difficult names and fantastic stories of foreign parts enthusiastically (7) by the overall worship of the "global village" Much of this will be awful and some wonderful, (8) don’t expect the press or the organizers of prizes to offer you much help in making the appropriate distinctions. They will be chiefly (9) in creating celebrity, the greatest enemy of discrimination, but a good prop for the (10) consumer.

Every ethnic grouping over the world will have to be seen to have a great writer--a phenomenon that will (11) a new kind of provincialism, more chronological than geographic, (12) only the strictly contemporary is talked about and (13) . Universities, including Cambridge, will include (14) their literature syllabus novels written only last year. (15) occasional exhumation for the Nobel, the achievements of ten or only five years ago will be largely forgotten.

In short, you can’t go too far wrong when predicting more of the same. But there is a (16) side to this--the inevitable reaction against it. The practical things I would like to see happen--publishers seeking less to (17) celebrity through extravagant advertising, (18) and magazines (19) space to reflective pieces--are rather more improbable than the Second Coming (耶稣复临). But dullness never quite darkens the whole planet. In their own idiosyncratic fashion a few writers will (20) be looking for new departures.

9()

A.dedicated

B.concerned

C.engaged

D.preoccupied

单项选择题